Web design hampers mobile Internet

A mass market exists for the mobile Internet, but it will remain untapped until designers make simpler Web pages that can be viewed properly on handsets, a pioneer of the World Wide Web said.

"(The mobile Internet) will be a huge enabler for the industry... and for big profits," Tim Berners-Lee told a seminar on Thursday on the future of the Web.

"Web designers have learned to design for the visually impaired and for other people. They will learn in a few years how to make Web sites available for people with mobile devices too," he said.